MOULTRIE – The Moultrie-Colquitt County Chamber of Commerce held a luncheon Wednesday afternoon to honor nurses and participants within the Farmworker Family Health Program.
Dr. Lowell J. Kepp passed away on May 7, 2021. Those who knew him have lost a gentle and gracious friend. Lowell was born on November 13, 1931 in Atlanta,
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Ben Ross, president of Forest Heights Pharmacy, Inc., was elected recently to the Board of Directors for The Citizens Bank of Swainsboro and their holding company Swainsboro Bankshares, Inc.
“We are fortunate to have another highly qualified individual to serve on our Board of Directors,” said President Milton Gray. “Mr. Ross is a successful entrepreneur who is well respected and strongly connected to the Statesboro-Bulloch County market. He has been an active member of the Bulloch First Advisory Board since its inception. We are proud to have him serving on The Citizens Bank of Swainsboro and Swainsboro Bankshares Board of Directors as well. He will be a tremendous asset to our entire company.”
When Jo Ann Trapnell Adams graduated from the University of Georgia School of Pharmacy, she was just 20 years old. In fact, she graduated on her birthday on June 12, 1947.
Just over two years later, she and her husband Bob moved to Gainesville where she took a job at Piedmont Drug Store, becoming the first female pharmacist in the city. Adams and Charlie Johnson opened Riverside Pharmacy in 1954 where she spent more than three decades filling prescriptions until her retirement in 1986.
Adams, a native of Bulloch County in South Georgia, died Tuesday, Feb. 16 a the age of 93.
Private funeral services will be held for family members. Arrangements are being coordinated by Memorial Park Funeral Home- Riverside Chapel.